This blog is a collection on my ramblings on Economics. I plan to write on current economic issues, recent research (sometimes mine, but more often others’), and issues of interest to economists. As I am writing from Turkey, I will try to focus more on the Turkish economy. While I will write in English, I will refer to articles in Turkish and might occasionally invite a guest blogger to write in Turkish. So, apologies for the semi-bilingual nature of the blog if you do not speak Turkish...

Monday, March 7, 2011

My nickname in high school was "depek", for having pronounced Depeche Mode as Depek Mode on a rainy morning when I was too sleepy, given to me by one "Testi"- I have no idea why his nick was "water jar"...

Anyway, it's there and back again, although you may not have noticed, as I have blogging drought spells from time to time, but I lost my access to Blogpost again on Friday. It seems that the internet providers were quick to override the DNS trick...

But it pays to have a brother who has an IT specialist. After a short change to my Windows settings, I was back online late Sunday night.

If you are reading this and are in Turkey, you have already solved this problem, and if you can't read it, you won't be able to see this:), but I'll say it anyway: If you email me, I would be more than happy to give you instructions, which would let you into my blog for good after a one-time, 5-minute work with your computer...